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Each legislator shall be provided one thousand dollars ($1,000) per fiscal year in post office stamps for the postage of his/her official mail. Each legislator may also use up to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) from any unencumbered funds for annual expenses of telephone and postage, chargeable to the appropriation for operating expenses of his/her office made by the President of the corresponding body. Provided, That the remainder of the two thousand dollar ($2,000) annual appropriation per legislator for transportation and communication expenses in the current budget, shall be transferred to the Curable Catastrophic Illnesses Services Fund, attached to the Department of Health. History —June 19, 1968, No. 97, p. 179, § 6; June 18, 1971, No. 40, p. 120; May 20, 1974, No. 44, Part 1, p. 196, § 1; July 20, 1979, No. 157, p. 403, § 1; July 2, 1981, No. 25, p. 139; July 9, 1985, No. 98, p. 319; Apr. 8, 1995, No. 35, § 1; renumbered as § 7 on Dec. 16, 1995, No. 235, § 3; Aug. 19, 1996, No. 150, § 21.